Back in the Day: Remembering the Wailers with special guest, Colin Grant

Back in the Day: Remembering the Wailers with special guest, Colin Grant

Back in the Day returns with special guest, Colin Grant, remembering the 3 contrasting personalities and talents that comprised reggae supergroup, the Wailers. A session bound to spark off questions and anecdotes with some rarer tracks being played on the decks. Something different and FREE to attend in between Euros 2016 nights with the Rye Wax bar and Taco Queen food on hand.

Colin Grant, is a historian and BBC radio producer. He is the author of Negro with a Hat, a biography of Marcus ...

Back in the Day returns with special guest, Colin Grant, remembering the 3 contrasting personalities and talents that comprised reggae supergroup, the Wailers. A session bound to spark off questions and anecdotes with some rarer tracks being played on the decks. Something different and FREE to attend in between Euros 2016 nights with the Rye Wax bar and Taco Queen food on hand.

Colin Grant, is a historian and BBC radio producer. He is the author of Negro with a Hat, a biography of Marcus Garvey and I&I: The Natural Mystics, a group biography of the original Wailers, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston. Colin's memoir, Bageye at the Wheel, was shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize.

Colin’s book (signed copies on sale on the night) argues that these reggae stars offered contrasting models for black men in the second half of the twentieth century: accommodate and succeed (Marley), fight and die (Tosh) or retreat and live (Wailer/Livingston).